Zhiyao Xie is an Assistant Professor in the ECE Department at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where he joined in 2022 Fall. His research focuses on electronic design automation (EDA) and AI for chip design. He completed his Ph.D. at Duke University in 2022. Zhiyao has received multiple prestigious awards, including the RGC HK Early Career Award 2023 (7 out of 525), ACM Outstanding Dissertation Award in EDA 2023 (one awardee per year), EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award 2023, MICRO 2021 Best Paper Award (1 out of 430), ASP-DAC 2023 Best Paper Award, WAIC Yufan Award (Brilliant Star) 2023, ACM SIGDA SRF 2022 Best Research Poster Award, and 4 more best paper nominations.